For my entire life people have told me I am "naturally athletic". I am not "naturally athletic": I am an asthmatic with historically really poor cardio health and joints that partially dislocate themselves if I put pressure on them slightly weird. What I *am* is naturally tall and slender, even more so when I did absolutely no physical activity and ate very little because my neurodivergent body didn't give me hunger signals, which most people mistake for "naturally athletic".

That's not to say I don't have the potential for athleticism. My mother, who has never been under 250 pounds my entire life, is built of sheer farm girl muscle, has stellar blood pressure and cardio health despite her weight, and could (and has!) bodily haul me and my grown brother around like we weigh nothing. When I was a kid the woman was biking triathlon distances before we were even awake for school. The woman is an ATHLETE, and her whole life she has been obese (and heard from everyone and their dogs that she needs to lose weight).

I'm not sure where I'm going with this long piece of anecdotal evidence, except to say: my whole life I heard I was naturally athletic, until I actually became athletic. Because the thing is, I put on muscle like my mom. It fills out my shoulders and arms and makes me look big, thick, and barrel chested. "Genetically beefy", as my brother puts it. And suddenly I wasn't getting comments about my athleticism anymore. I'm quite literally the healthiest I've ever been. I can run for miles, lift my weight, my balance and heart health are excellent. I'm just bigger now. And not one stranger has a comment about my physique since I got fit. Because I don't look like what they think "naturally athletic" is.

I guess what I'm saying is, maybe don't let your perception of what "athleticism" or "health" LOOKS like color your perception of like. People's actual health.

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Getting my steps in🚶‍♀️

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on vacances with a belly part 2 👀🐷

im glad you've figured out the boob situationTM, but i must say that i was stopped in my fucking tracks when you mentioned both that you're 135 pounds and that youve had doctors say you need to loose weight. 135 pounds?!? if one ever needed a clearer example of how america's medical institutions are obsessed with weight over the actual health and vital signs of the patient, that'd be the perfect case, because what person weighing 135 pounds needs to LOSE WEIGHT? no one needs to loose weight as much as they just need to exercise for general health, but people at that weight especially don't need to. they fucking shouldn't.

what, are they working under the assumption that your muscles can't fuck you up further if you're just skin and bones instead? some goddamn doctors, man.

Mmm. It's unfortuantely not limited to the US healthcare system. I grew up in the UK, and I've got pretty strong memories of always being told to lose weight even when I was at my absolute lightest so I'd be at the "better" end of the BMI scale.

Because of this, back when I first moved to the US 10 years ago, I weighed about 120-ish lbs soaking wet, and the first doctor I saw looked at me over the top of her glasses, tsked, and told me that based on my BMI I should aim to be 5lbs lighter for optimal health and that "extra" 5lbs was why I had acid reflux.

(Spoiler alert: even when I rapidly dropped 30lbs last year due to a medical complication, I still had acid fucking reflux.)

I'm so, so thankful now that core providers of my healthcare team think BMI is bullshit because, holy fuck, it it bullshit.

I was watching a video of New York in 1930 and the thing I noticed here was: "Can you spot a single person who is overweight?"

What's changed? 🤔

Always an angel, never a god.

Always ⭐️ving, never loosing.

Always sick, never sick enough.

Always normal, never skinny.

Always an angel, never a god.

Fat lasts longer than flavour.

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tw: weight loss, weight gain (positive)

So it's been just under a month since I saw the GI, and he diagnosed my stomach issue and severe colon pain as being a result of undertreated MCAS and my body not getting enough nutrients.

Prior to that, I'd lost 40lbs in 3 months because my body wasn't processing solid foods, and I was getting desperately weak and couldn't hold a thought in my brain.

I am hesitant to jinx myself, but I seem to be absorbing the high dose of supplements he prescribed (I need to get my levels checked again, but I feel better), and also, the rapid weight loss has stopped. I have, in fact, gained five pounds. Heck yeah!

I'm also managing to tolerate solids again. I still have bouts of debilitating pain, but the meds help.

Turns out I just needed proper meds and nutrients. Who knew?

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So I was at the doctor's office and I thought I weight 60kg (132lbs) at 5'9 but turns out I'm actually 50kg (110lbs)!!!

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